Re: [PATCH][CFT] Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 17:49:50 EST


On 23 Nov 2001, Phil Sorber wrote:

> does this affect non-ext2 systems? the only complaints i have seen on
> here were related to ext2, i am running reiserfs, should i have to be
> worried as well?

Same problem.

Trivial workaround to prevent damage is to do sync before umount. It's
_not_ a real fix, though - just a way to get out of the situation without
fs damage.

For real fix see the last variant posted on l-k.

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